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[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 24 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

they were the ones to skimp (heavily) on safety.

for once this penny pinching lead to their suffering instead of ours.

i hope they don't get a penny.

[-] Black_Mald_Futures@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago

Im pretty sure the family of the guy that was hired to pilot the thing didn't design and build a death tube of brittle carbon fiber

[-] Yuritopiaposadism@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago

the guy that was hired to pilot

He's alive, he was fired before the accident because he had safety concerns and his boss took over as the pilot.

https://www.businessinsider.com/former-oceangate-pilot-worried-stockton-rush-people-killed-ego-email-2023-7

[-] Rom@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago

"I think I've broken them with logic and good engineering behind me. Carbon fiber and titanium? There's a rule you don't do that," Rush said in a 2021 interview with Mexican YouTuber Alan Estrada. "Well, I did."

An expert previously told Insider that photos of the Titan sub wreckage suggest that the most likely explanation for the vessel's implosion was that the carbon-fiber hull collapsed under the immense pressure of the ocean.

chefs-kiss

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago

"I'm rich that makes me smarter and better than a professional!"

dies

Rather poetic, really.

[-] Black_Mald_Futures@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago

well idk what the French submersible pilot was doing onboard then but i'm still pretty sure it wasn't him or his family designing and cutting corners on the thing

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